Институт по океанология "Фритьоф Нансен"

Library - services, readers and rules

Services

Individual lending:

  • Individual lending for the reading-room
  • Individual lending for home-reading
  • Individual lending through Interlibrary and International Library Services

Bibliographic and information services:

  • Information search in online and traditional catalogues
  • Users’ service through online catalog ALEPH500
  • Free access to online databases
  • Citation references in Scopus and Web of Science
  • Complete information about all documents owned by the library
  • Bibliographic references connected with resources owned by other libraries
  • Information about new-coming publications through current exhibitions
  • Answers of online requests, verbal references,

Other services: free access to reference books, new periodicals, copying of library documents, microfilm reader.

TRADITIONAL CATALOGUES

They are available in the lending-room of the Library:

  • Alphabetical catalogue of books in Cyrillic alphabet
  • Alphabetical catalogue of books in Latin alphabet
  • Alphabetical catalogue of periodicals in Cyrillic alphabet
  • Alphabetical catalogue of periodicals in Latin alphabet
  • Classified Systematic Catalogue

For internal use:

  • Topographic catalogue of books
  • Card-index of journals in Cyrillic alphabet
  • Card-index of journals in Latin alphabet
  • Card-index of serials in Cyrillic alphabet
  • Card-index of serials in Latin alphabet
  • Card-index of theses

Readers and rules

The Library is open to all readers who need information connected with its fund and profile. Readers are registered with a card. The reading-room is available to all registered readers.

Only the employees of IO-BAS are entitled to borrow library documents for a period of 3 months. Other employees in the system of BAS may borrow books through the libraries of their institutes for 1 month.

Reference books and periodicals are used only in the library reading room.

Contacts:

Institute of Oceanology
Parvi mai Blvd, 40
Asparuhovo quarter
Varna 9003
Bulgaria

Telephone: (+359) 52 37 04 86   int. 116

E-mail: library@io-bas.bg